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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a man who holds the ozo title forbidden to do?
(a) Tap the tall palm trees.
(b) Wrestle during the Feast of the New Yam.
(c) Drink from the tapping of short palm trees.
(d) Talk to a single woman in public.

2. What descends on the land of Okonkwo, darkens the sky, settles on the rooftops, and breaks mighty tree branches under them?
(a) The arrows of neighboring enemies
(b) A flock of vultures
(c) The spirits of the clans ancestors
(d) A swarm of locusts

3. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?
(a) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, puts live coals into a piece of broken pot and Ezinma carries it to Nwoye's mother.
(b) Ezinma carries a flaming stick across the compound to Nwoye's mother's hut.
(c) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, makes a torch of banana leaves and palm oil, and gives it to Ezinma to carry to Nwoye's mother.
(d) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, gives Ezinma a clay pot with burning leaves inside to carry to Nwoye's mother's hut.

4. Which of the spectators of the wrestling match are allowed to sit around the huge circle of the wrestling ring?
(a) Women and children.
(b) The elders, grandees, a few early comers in the stands, and the drummers.
(c) Pregnant women.
(d) The wrestlers waiting for their matches.

5. Okonkwo ate his wive's meals, and his wives and children are their supper. What is the next thing his wives and children do?
(a) Sing and told folk stories
(b) Wash the children and get them ready for bed
(c) The wives wash their hair and their children's hair
(d) Review the events of the day

6. Who appears in front of Ekwefi as she waits tearfully outside Agbala's cave?
(a) Nwoye's mother
(b) Okonkwo
(c) Nwoye
(d) Chielo

7. Who are the two groups of people who stand facing the elders at the ceremonial trial?
(a) One group is wrestlers from the nine villages, and the other group is judges.
(b) One group is the twelve-year-old boys from the village. The other group is their fathers.
(c) One group is the three oldest men from the village. The other group is their sons.
(d) One group is Mgbafo and her three brothers. The other group is her husband, Uzowulu, and his relatives.

8. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?
(a) Okoye needs money to help him overcome his failures.
(b) To buy yams for his three wives.
(c) To buy a new ogene, the musical instrument Okoye played.
(d) To help pay for the expensive Idemili title ceremony.

9. What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father has no yams?
(a) Share-cropping.
(b) Saving his money to buy seeds.
(c) Planting coco-yams.
(d) Going to his mother and his father's wives for help.

10. One night, the storytelling of Okonkwo 's wives and children stops because the priestess, Chielo is shouting in a high-pitched voice. What does she tell Okonkwo?
(a) That Agbala wants to see all Okonkwo's wives
(b) That Agbala is putting a curse on Okonkwo's house
(c) That Agbala needs to talk to Okonkwo
(d) That Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves wants to see Ezinma

11. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?
(a) It means Ezinma will have many children.
(b) It means Ezinma is going to cry.
(c) It means Ezinma will see something.
(d) It means the rains will come early this year.

12. What is the custom in the village of Obodoani if a man dies during the Week of Peace?
(a) The man is buried as deep as two graves.
(b) The man is not buried, but cast into the Evil Forest.
(c) The man is buried outside the village.
(d) The man is burned to ashes, instead of buried.

13. How many men are in each of the two teams of wrestlers who face each other in the wrestling ring?
(a) Nine men on each side
(b) Six men on each side
(c) Five men on each side
(d) Twelve men on each side

14. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?
(a) Ekwefi, the second wife of Okonkwo
(b) Noywe's mother
(c) Anasi, Okonkwo's first wife
(d) Chielo, a widow with two children

15. How long is Ikemenfuna in Okonkwo's care?
(a) Twelve years
(b) Three months
(c) Two days
(d) Three years

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the children of the village prepared for the Feast of the New Yam?

2. While talking with Okoye about the war, Unkona changes the subject to which topic?

3. Why does Okonkwo worry about his son, Nwoye?

4. Why do men and women look forward to the Feast of the New Yam?

5. Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?

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